Animal-trap



(No Model.)

' W. P. WHITE.

ANIMAL TRAP.

No. 366,802.. Patented July 19, 1 -887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

IVILLIAM PRICE \VHITE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

ANIMAL-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of-Letters Patent No. 366,802, dated July 19, 1887.

Application tiled June 4, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PRICE WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal-Traps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective of a portion of a trap containing and showing my improvement; and Fig. 2 is a section of the same on the vertical plane a", with the part toward the left in elevation.

A is a door in the entrance-way to the trap. This door is hinged on the outer cross-piece, e, and is counterbalanced sufficient] y to be kept closed by the weights 0.

Bis an inner partition, the lower end or cross-pieee, d, of which terminates above the throat of the entrance-way. C O are side partitions of the entrance'way. The upper end or points, I), of the rods of the door A close just outside the cross-piece (l of the inner partition, B, as shown in Fig. 2. 7

An animal attempting to enter depresses by his footfall the door A to the floor of the trap, thus opening a clear passage for. himself under the partition 13 into the trap, Having entered, he cannot again depress the door to escape, by reason of the inner end of the door A closing just outside the crosspiece d of the inner partition, B, and the bars or wires thereof approximately registering with those of the Serial No. 240,243,

(No model.)

I am aware that it has been proposed to pro- 0 vide an entrance-way to traps with a solid platform pivoted in such entrance-way, and

adapted to swing vertically therein, and this I do not claim, one of the objects of my invention being the construction of such swinging platform from bars or wires, which, by reason of the spaces between them and their approximately registering with the bars of the partition B, lessen the danger of the tilting or opening of the door by the paw of the animal within the trap, such construction affording no foothold upon which the animal could exert snflicient pressure to depress and open the door. I

That I claim as of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An animal-trap the entrance-way to which is provided with the vertically-swinging skeleton door A, kept in closed poise by the weights (6, in combination with the inner partition, B, the inner end of the door A being adjusted to close just outside the lower cross-piece, d, of the inner partition, B, so that the cross-piece (1 serves as a protection to the door A against depression from within.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

IVILLIAM PRICE \VHITE.

Witnesses:

Gnono-n DU BELLE, 'H, PHILLIPS. 

